{"id":84,"date":"2015-07-13T23:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2015-07-13T23:45:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:45:41","slug":"judy-segal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/featured-speakers\/judy-segal\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Segal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/JUDY-SEGAL-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-603 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/JUDY-SEGAL-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"JUDY SEGAL 1\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Judy Segal<\/p>\n<p>Professor of English<\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>jsegal at mail dot ubc dot ca<\/p>\n<p>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jsegal\">blogs.ubc.ca\/jsegal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Description of Current Work<\/h2>\n<p>I am currently completing a book manuscript for the Penn State UP\/RSA transdisciplinary book series. The ms is called (still tentatively) \u201cPersonal Experience\/Public Discourse: Living in the Idiom of Health and Illness at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century.\u201d The book will include chapters on, among other things, the history and rhetoric of pharmaceutical advertising and on the persuasive element in current discourses on these topics: breast-cancer, pain, \u201cfemale sexual dysfunction,\u201d and aging. I have published (other things) on all of these topics before\u2014but nothing on the rhetoric of aging. Because the aging chapter has been such a challenge to write\u2014and has taken me to a range of literatures across humanities, social sciences, medicine, and health policy\u2014and because I am importantly aging <em>as <\/em>I write, I will be applying this fall for funding to support research for a book-length project on rhetoric, age and identity. My attention will be on, among other things, (the rhetoric of) media representations of old women.<\/p>\n<p>My presentation at our symposium is on my female-sexual-dysfunction research, particularly as it brought me last October to the FDA for \u201cpatient-focused\u201d meetings on the \u201cunmet need\u201d for a pharmaceutical treatment for \u201cfemale hypoactive sexual desire disorder\u201d (all terms used by the FDA). One of the methodological things I learned from being at those meetings is that participant-observation is a terrific way of doing research. Something else I learned\u2014learned again, since I already knew it\u2014was this: there are many constituencies outside of the academy (clinicians and health activists to name two) very excited to have access to rhetorical observation. I have, for a long time, worked to bring rhetorical study to non-academic audiences, but FSD has opened up avenues of contact I had not before explored. I\u2019m excited to discover the range of partners and possible audiences for my work on aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judy Segal Professor of English University of British Columbia jsegal at mail dot ubc dot ca website: blogs.ubc.ca\/jsegal &nbsp; &nbsp; Description of Current Work I am currently completing a book manuscript for the Penn State UP\/RSA transdisciplinary book series. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/featured-speakers\/judy-segal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}